Alien life on a new planet “may not have DNA like humans but might walk on two legs”, experts have revealed. It follows the discovery of an extraterrestrial world around 120 light years away from ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified what they describe as the most compelling evidence so far for biological activity beyond Earth. The findings focus on the ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

An illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18b might look like based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. K2-18b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Published on ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

A growing number of studies have cast doubt on earlier claims about signs of life on K2-18b, a planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation, concluding that the available data doesn’t support ...